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Operation Eagle Claw : the ramifications of political divisions in U.S. decision-making during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-1981 Undergraduate
(2016)
The taking of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in the fall of 1979 began a long, complicated 444 days of negotiations and frustrations in insuring the return home of the hostages. In early April 1980, President Jimmy Carter came ...
The University of Oklahoma Historical Journal Undergraduate
(2014-04-01)
Preface to the Third Issue of the OU Historical Journal by Raphael Folsom, Assistant Professor of History
Public Health and the British Empire: From Colonization to Decolonization Undergraduate
(2016)
This article traces the process of how colonization and eventual decolonization within the British Empire affected the development of public health infrastructure within British India versus British East Africa, and why ...
The Church Committee : unveiling the past and unraveling the future Undergraduate
(2016)
The Central Intelligence Agency has long been shrouded in mystery and public speculation. The agency is often cast as the perpetrator of heinous conspiracies perhaps conceived from the public’s imagination or the creativity ...
The Liberal Libertine: Gender and Revolution in the Writings of Francisco de Miranda Undergraduate
(2016-04-01)
Francisco de Miranda's life embodied the contradiction which was central to the Age of Democratic Revolution: to what extent could the liberal ideologies emerging from the Enlightenment replace the old order? Just as other ...
Drones, Ethics, and Pakistan Undergraduate
(2017)
The following article provides an ethical appraisal of the use of armed drones within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan by the Central Intelligence Agency through the prism of Just War theory. This paper ...
Benjamin Franklin and George Adams, Jr.: Enlightened Entrepeneurs Undergraduate
(2014-04-01)
In “Benjamin Franklin and George Adams, Jr.: Enlightenment Entrepreneurs,” Connor Wilson shows us that in the Early Republic, science was used to capture both the public’s imagination and pocketbooks. Making deft use of ...
The Post-Conflict Transformation of Gender Norms in Nicaragua Undergraduate
(2013-10-01)
Helen Kerwin’s engaging and informative article elucidates the recent social and political history of Nicaragua. But she accomplishes more than this single task. She also contributes to the history and theory of women and ...
Decolonizing the Uncolonized: France, French Canadian Identity, and the Quebecois Nationalist Movement, 1945-1967 Undergraduate
(2016)
This research project intended to analyze and understand the relationship between Third World decolonization movements, the nascent nationalist movement in Quebec between 1945 and 1967, and the simultaneous development of ...